My name is E

I like business cards. However, recently a dutch company called “My name is E” has come up with a neat idea. Basically it does away with business cards and allows you to exchange stuff like social networks, numbers, everything. So far it comes with a Web Interface, as well as a dongle which you can …

Boycott Celebrity Apprentice

The wrong person won the Celebrity Apprentice! Oh yes I’m pissed off! For the past few weeks, I’ve been addicted to Celebrity Apprentice. As JC knows, I’m a reality TV bluff for some strange reason even though I know its bad acting, TV is non-representative of real life or drama, and made for TV has …

First month with T-Mobile

T-Mobile is the first carrier I’ve ever used since I have been living in the Netherlands. It was kind of obvious to choose T-Mobile because it was the only carrier here which offered the iPhone, although it is quite anti-expat as the website is entirely in Dutch. I was using prepaid with Lebara Mobile previously. …

iSjoel + iPhone App

I met Sander recently, who created the iPhone App game iSjoel. Its a Dutch game obviously and when it was released in the Netherlands in February it stayed on the number one spot for a few weeks in the Netherlands iTunes App Store. iSjoel is a very Dutch game, you get a pile of wooden …

Buy Amazon stock. Its cheap.

The Kindle DX must have been one of the tech world’s worst kept secret. Because every respectable tech blog was talking about it, pictures were leaked, and we kind of all knew it was coming. And reiterating my lust list, I STILL want a Kindle 2.0. But Kindle DX kinds of brings the ballgame to …

Adventures in migrating wordpress

I’ve got a new post titled: “Migrating from WordPress.com to your very own host”. Well, five years ago I was absolutely clueless about WordPress.org’s quick 5-minutes install. (Yeah right, more like three hours) This time I got much further, unfortunately, the export XML which supposedly exports out your files, picture, posts, comments and everything, stopped …

Google Goats

So.. Google has started renting goats. “At our Mountain View headquarters, we have some fields that we need to mow occasionally to clear weeds and brush to reduce fire hazard. This spring we decided to take a low-carbon approach: Instead of using noisy mowers that run on gasoline and pollute the air, we’ve rented some …